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- Volume 1(Issue 1) JANUARY- JUNE 2025
Research Articles
Teaching Nursing Students about the Sociopolitical Aspects of Gerontechnology: Developing Dementia Care
Vol.1(1); Pages:1-9. Published on May-2025
Abstract
Gerontechnologies need to integrate more seriously into dementia care because global populations continue to grow older. The research evaluates how educational programs instruct nursing students to approach and control the social and political impacts of these technologies. Qualitative analysis of nursing education programs alongside instructional approaches facilitates the discovery of how students learn about gerontechnological benefits for clinical applications together with their societal effects extending from ethics through economics to culture. The research results demonstrate increased emphasis on preparing the next generation of nurses to defend fair and responsible integration of technology specifically for dementia patients during elder care.
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A Human Rights-Based Perspective on Ethical Issues in Research and Care for Dementia
Vol.1(1); Pages:10-17. Published on May-2025
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This paper investigates human rights-based research practices in dementia investigations to protect the dignity and self-determination rights of people with dementia. Research methodologies extended with human rights principles aim to protect participant rights as well as ensure researchers listen to participants and maintain their welfare over the entire research period. The paper details important ethical challenges including informed consent procedures together with caregiver involvement and researcher-subject power relationships in research environments. The framework offers various benefits that include affecting dementia care policy and leading to improved practices and better quality life for dementia patients. The human rights framework provides an inclusive framework which respects subjects and researchers by offering total ethical solutions to dementia research problems with a goal of creating equal opportunities for all participants.
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Facilitated Family Case Conferencing Vs. Usual Care for Enhancing End-Of-Life Outcomes In Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia: A Pragmatic Trial Protocol
Vol.1(1); Pages:18-25. Published on May-2025
Abstract
As part of its study protocol the IDEAL research conducts an RCT trial to evaluate the effectiveness of FFCC compared to classic patient treatment while assessing its impact on end-of-life care delivery and care results for both nursing home patients with advanced dementia and their relatives. Healthcare facilities face substantial difficulty with dementia care delivery because the number of elderly patients continues to rise. Advanced dementia patients in nursing homes face treatment complications while their families encounter multiple obstacles to making good decisions due to emotional and cognitive limitations and lack of information. The research focuses on creating an organized family case conferencing framework that conducts periodic meetings between healthcare providers and families alongside care teams to examine care choices and life-end decisions and patient objectives. End-of-life care quality improvement stands as the main study goal and researchers will measure it through the assessment of resident symptom control and family member satisfaction and care preference communication. The study measures both quality and frequency changes within end-of-life treatment settings as well as resident-family satisfaction results among patients at nursing homes. Research findings from this study will produce significant evidence about the capabilities and effects of FFCC in dementia care improvement within nursing homes which can extend to broader impacts in advanced dementia and end-of-life care policy and practice development.
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Reducing Distress Behaviors in Dementia: Learnings from Veterans Health Administration Implementation Techniques
Vol.1(1); Pages:26-35. Published on May-2025
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Individuals with dementia commonly display distress behaviors which include agitation, aggression and wandering behavior along with care resistance inside institutional care facilities especially long-term care facilities. Dementia patients display these behaviors since they fail to meet their needs or struggle with communication or experience triggers in their environment that produces life-quality issues for both patients and their caregivers. One of the largest integrated healthcare systems within the United States known as Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched research-backed strategies to control such behaviors when delivering dementia care services. This paper explores the implementation science approaches used by the VHA to mitigate distress behaviors, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration, person-centered care planning, staff training, and environmental modifications.Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evaluations, the study highlights how the VHA’s adoption of frameworks such as the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) model and the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) have guided the translation of best practices into routine care. Two main interventions operated by the Veterans Affairs organization are STAR-VA (Staff Training in Assisted Living Residences – Veterans Affairs) and the Behavioral Recovery Outreach (BRO) Team initiative. These programs deliver specialized behavioral evaluations alongside trauma-aware services that combine multidisciplinary team-based case evaluation between physicians and mental health professionals and geriatric specialists. The study findings demonstrate fundamental requirements for behavioral health expansion across different clinical environments which include dedicated executive support coupled with ongoing education and responsive evaluation systems. The experience of the Veterans Health Administration provides essential awareness to future healthcare systems which want to tackle behavioral health issues in elderly patients with dementia. Recommendations for statewide dementia care improvement include scalable deployment approaches and policy solutions which the paper presents as conclusions.
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Investigating the Effects of Multimodal Stimuli and System Interactivity on Human-Robot Interaction to Increase Engagement in Dementia Patients
Vol.1(1); Pages:36-44. Published on May-2025
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This research examines how system interactivity combined with various stimuli enhances human-robot interactions when dealing with people who have dementia. The quality of life for dementia patients deteriorates as the disease advances because they develop communication problems and difficulty engaging with others. The study merges interactive robotic systems with visual together with auditory along with tactile feedback to assess the combined influence on better engagement and interaction effectiveness. Research data shows that dementia patients benefit greatly from interactive robotic systems which respond through multimodal sensory cues since this approach leads to increased attention and fewer behavioral symptoms while stimulating cognitive function. Robotic technologies show great promise for therapy support that helps dementia patients enhance their wellbeing.
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